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Timing of Marriage and Women's Economic Empowerment in Egypt

埃及的结婚时机和妇女经济赋权

基本信息

批准号：
8622208
负责人：
KATHRYN M YOUNT
金额：
$ 7.58万
依托单位：
EMORY UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-04-01 至 2016-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Women in Egypt have a long history of low economic empowerment. Specifically, they occupy less than one third of the labor force. Young women may enter the labor force as a means to secure the resources needed for a "good marriage" but drop out of the labor force upon marriage. Women also report low levels of influence in family economic decisions in national surveys. OBJECTIVES Using nationally representative panel data spanning 14 years for Egypt, we will assess the effects of a woman's age at first marriage on her economic empowerment, as indicated by her propensity to be engaged in market work after marriage and her influence in familial economic decisions. DATA The sample for this analysis includes approximately 2,340 women ages 15-35 years in 1998, who were interviewed in the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) and were never married in 1998. The ELMPS, a 14-year national household panel study, collects detailed information on respondents' ages at first marriage, fertility history, labor force participation, time allocation to domestic ad subsistence labor, influence in family economic decisions, and assets brought to marriage. We also will use data from the ELMPS and repeated cross-national Demographic and Health Surveys spanning 20 years for Egypt (1988 - 2008) to construct aggregate indicators to reflect aspects of the local marriage market that preceded the time at which sample women were married. METHODS We will use community level measures of the unemployment rate among never married men, timing of marriage, assets brought to marriage, and cost of marriage as instrumental variable to estimate the effect of women's age at first marriage on levels and change in their propensity to engage in market work after marriage and their influence in family economic decisions. SIGNIFICANCE: Current evidence on the relationship between age at first marriage and women's economic empowerment is limited by a reliance on cross-sectional data and poor measures of women's labor force participation and its timing around marriage, assets brought to marriage, and influence in family economic decisions. Our study will overcome these gaps by using a rich panel data set covering a 14-year period with detailed measures for all constructs of interest. The results of our study will provide a more rigorous and systematic assessment of the extent to which delaying marriage for women may enhance various dimensions of their economic empowerment.

描述（由申请人提供）：埃及妇女长期以来经济能力低下。具体来说，她们只占不到三分之一的劳动力。年轻妇女可能会进入劳动力市场，以获得“美满婚姻”所需的资源，但在结婚后就退出劳动力市场。在全国调查中，妇女还报告说，她们对家庭经济决策的影响力很小。我们将使用埃及14年的全国代表性面板数据，评估妇女初婚年龄对经济赋权的影响，如她婚后从事市场工作的倾向和她对家庭经济决策的影响。本分析的样本包括1998年约2，340名年龄在15-35岁之间的妇女，她们在埃及劳动力市场小组调查（ELMPS）中接受了采访，并且在1998年从未结婚。ELMPS是一项为期14年的全国家庭小组研究，收集了受访者初婚年龄、生育史、劳动力参与率、家务和维持生计劳动的时间分配、对家庭经济决策的影响以及结婚资产等详细信息。我们还将使用来自ELMPS的数据以及埃及20年（1988 - 2008年）反复进行的跨国人口与健康调查，构建综合指标，以反映样本妇女结婚之前当地婚姻市场的各个方面。方法：我们将使用社区层面的措施，未婚男性的失业率，结婚时间，结婚带来的资产，婚姻成本作为工具变量，以估计妇女的初婚年龄的水平和变化的影响，他们倾向于从事市场工作后，婚姻和家庭经济决策的影响。重要性：目前关于初婚年龄与妇女经济赋权之间关系的证据受到以下因素的限制：依赖于横截面数据，对妇女劳动力参与及其结婚时间、结婚资产以及对家庭经济决策的影响的衡量不佳。我们的研究将通过使用涵盖14年期间的丰富面板数据集来克服这些差距，并对所有感兴趣的结构进行详细测量。我们的研究结果将提供一个更严格和系统的评估，在多大程度上推迟结婚的妇女可能会加强其经济赋权的各个方面。